Politifact.com: Stories mentioning Herman Cainhttp://www.politifact.com/personalities/herman-cain/Stories or blog posts about Herman Cain from Politifact.comen-usThu, 03 Jul 2014 15:26:59 -0400Getting the facts straight about the Founding Fathershttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/jul/03/fact-checking-founding-fathers-misquoting/Invoking the Founding Fathers on Independence Day to celebrate our nation&rsquo;s birth is a fine thing to do. Invoking them to score political points? Watch out. Take, for example, a Facebook post about Benjamin Franklin that circulated in May, a post that was actually aimed at making fun of tea party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. The meme quotes Bachmann as saying, &quot;This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.&quot; &nbsp;Of course, Franklin was never president. And we think Bachmann knows that, as well, because she never actually said the quote. We rated the fabricated Facebook meme Pants ... <a href="/truth-o-meter/article/2014/jul/03/fact-checking-founding-fathers-misquoting/">>>More</a>Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:26:59 -0400http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/jul/03/fact-checking-founding-fathers-misquoting/PolitiFact Florida’s top 10 fact-checks of 2011http://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2012/jan/05/politifact-floridas-top-10-fact-checks-2011/Before we do a deep-dive into the election year excitement of 2012, we wanted to take a final look back at 2011. Here, we&rsquo;re counting down to our most popular fact-check of the year, as determined by which reports got the most page views. 10. Sen. Marco Rubio said his parents &#39;came to America following Fidel Castro&#39;. The national spotlight got hot for Rubio when reporters started looking into his parents and their arrival in the United States. Rubio or his campaign said several times that his parents arrived from Cuba after Castro took over. But the record shows they ... <a href="/florida/article/2012/jan/05/politifact-floridas-top-10-fact-checks-2011/">>>More</a>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:43:51 -0500http://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2012/jan/05/politifact-floridas-top-10-fact-checks-2011/Perry's abortion shift latest fodder for Flip-O-Meterhttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/dec/29/perrys-abortion-shift-new-fodder-flip-o-meter/Gov. Rick Perry, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, is the latest Texas official to receive a rating from the PolitiFact Texas Flip-O-Meter. At a campaign event in Iowa on Dec. 27, 2011, Gov. Rick Perry told a pastor that his position on abortion had undergone a &quot;transformation.&quot; We found that Perry, who has long maintained his opposition to most abortions, had changed his mind about whether there should be exceptions to any abortion ban for cases of rape and incest. However, he continues to support an exception when the life of a woman is threatened. We called that ... <a href="/texas/article/2011/dec/29/perrys-abortion-shift-new-fodder-flip-o-meter/">>>More</a>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:11:27 -0500http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/dec/29/perrys-abortion-shift-new-fodder-flip-o-meter/Republican debate touches past claims about federal taxes, Medicaidhttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/nov/09/republican-debate-claims-remind-us-three-fact-chec/The CNBC Republican presidential debate brought to mind a scant few previously fact-checked claims: --Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota noted that 53 percent of Americans pay federal income taxes now, while 47 percent of Americans &quot;pay no federal income taxes.&quot; We&rsquo;re not sure about that, precisely, but we earlier rated True a claim by U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, saying that in 2009, 51 percent of American households paid no income taxes. Significantly, Cornyn did not say residents of thehouseholds paid no taxes at all. Many Americans who pay no income tax pay other federal taxes, notably the payroll tax, ... <a href="/texas/article/2011/nov/09/republican-debate-claims-remind-us-three-fact-chec/">>>More</a>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:54:34 -0500http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/nov/09/republican-debate-claims-remind-us-three-fact-chec/Rick Perry said everyone gets a tax cut under his planhttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/nov/07/rick-perry-said-everyone-gets-tax-cut-under-his-pl/Talking up his flat-tax plan, Texas Gov. Rick Perry told Neil Cavuto of the Fox News Channel that every taxpayer should be happy because of its simplicity. Plus, he said, it&rsquo;s &quot;a tax cut for every group out there. No matter where you are in the stratosphere, you&#39;re going to be getting a tax cut.&quot; Tax cuts for everyone? PolitiFact Texas wondered whether that was accurate. PolitiFact Texas had already checked MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow&rsquo;s claim that under Perry&rsquo;s plan, the rich would get huge tax cuts while everyone else would see big tax increases and rated that Mostly False. ... <a href="/texas/article/2011/nov/07/rick-perry-said-everyone-gets-tax-cut-under-his-pl/">>>More</a>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:48:04 -0500http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/nov/07/rick-perry-said-everyone-gets-tax-cut-under-his-pl/Fact-checking Herman Cainhttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/nov/03/fact-checking-herman-cain/Businessman/motivational speaker Herman Cain may or may not win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. For sure, more than 20 claims by Cain have been tested on the PolitiFact Truth-O-Meter, with more than half shaking out as False or, worse, Pants on Fire. Peruse his scorecard here. <a href="/texas/article/2011/nov/03/fact-checking-herman-cain/">>>More</a>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:53:16 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/nov/03/fact-checking-herman-cain/Fact-checking the Republican debate in Nevadahttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/oct/19/fact-checking-republican-debate-nevada/Boosted by his newly minted front-runner status, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain bounced into Tuesday&#39;s GOP debate in Las Vegas as the latest possible conservative foil to Mitt Romney. So ... naturally Cain and his &quot;9-9-9&quot; tax plan became the immediate focus of attacks from the group of Republicans hoping to knock him off stride. 9-9-9, Cain says, is the first step to creating a national flat or &quot;fair&quot; tax. It would replace the current complicated tax system with 9 percent personal income tax, a 9 percent national sales tax and a 9 percent tax on businesses. Unlike the current ... <a href="/truth-o-meter/article/2011/oct/19/fact-checking-republican-debate-nevada/">>>More</a>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:19:31 -0400http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/oct/19/fact-checking-republican-debate-nevada/Romney put illegal immigrants to work, Perry sayshttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/oct/19/romney-put-illegal-immigrants-work-perry-says/In Tuesday&#39;s wide-ranging CNN Republican presidential debate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry&#39;s aggressive sallies included a claim about Mitt Romney and the employment of undocumented workers that PolitiFact judged years ago. Perry, who again drew fire from opponents for signing into law a 2001 proposal permitting some Texas illegal immigrants to attend colleges and universities on in-state tuition, said illegal immigrants enter the country for jobs. Next, he accused the former Massachusetts governor of hiring &quot;illegals in your home, and you knew about it for a year. And the idea that you stand here before us and talk about that you&#39;re ... <a href="/texas/article/2011/oct/19/romney-put-illegal-immigrants-work-perry-says/">>>More</a>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:59:52 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/oct/19/romney-put-illegal-immigrants-work-perry-says/Fact-checking the Republican debate in Nevadahttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/oct/19/fact-checking-republican-debate-nevada/Boosted by his newly minted near-front-runner status, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain bounced into Tuesday&#39;s GOP debate in Las Vegas as the latest possible conservative foil to Mitt Romney. So ... naturally Cain and his &quot;9-9-9&quot; tax plan became the immediate focus of attacks from the group of Republicans hoping to knock him off stride. 9-9-9, Cain says, is the first step to creating a national flat or &quot;fair&quot; tax. It would replace the current complicated tax system with 9 percent personal income tax, a 9 percent national sales tax and a 9 percent tax on businesses. Unlike the current ... <a href="/texas/article/2011/oct/19/fact-checking-republican-debate-nevada/">>>More</a>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:43:57 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2011/oct/19/fact-checking-republican-debate-nevada/Checking Herman Cain's math on 9-9-9http://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2011/oct/14/checking-herman-cains-math-9-9-9/The more people learn more about Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain&#39;s &quot;9-9-9&quot; plan, the more questions they have. One of the bigger ones is how it would affect poorer Americans. We had the chance to put the question to Cain directly during his recent swing through Florida. &quot;Most people are going to pay less in taxes,&quot; Cain, a former pizza chain executive, said Oct. 5, 2011, aboard his campaign bus stopped in St. Petersburg. &quot;Why? Because we&#39;re expanding the base.&quot; Cain told us he even worked out the math himself. Someone earning $50,000 a year would pay less in taxes ... <a href="/florida/article/2011/oct/14/checking-herman-cains-math-9-9-9/">>>More</a>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:46:15 -0400http://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2011/oct/14/checking-herman-cains-math-9-9-9/